Word: assets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diseases until they are advanced enough to compete on fairer ground. Only ships chartered by the Danish Government carry food to Greenland. Everything in the island, from the 10,000 sheep to the Eskimo bride in sealskin trousers, is carefully supervised. Greenland's only industrial asset is a cryolite mine, run by Danes. This is some compensation for Danish munificence, but the Government loses about $150,000 a year...
...Their money could apparently buy everything. . . . Their accent was beginning to be an asset, even to the English themselves, in truly 'smart' circles; it was beginning-you listened in that night?-to be heard in the voice of the young tribal God himself. . . . They were cock-a-hoop, and since Edward's accession getting insolent and out-of-hand. There was but one more world to conquer. The first woman to sit in the ancient Commons was a divorced American.* why not then also...
...other moving spirit of Babes In Arms had no previous theatrical experience whatever, which is evidently something of an asset since most of her colleagues are professional youngsters inclined to make up with mugging what they lack in poise. She is Wynn Murray and hails from the church choirs of Scranton, Pa. Miss Murray is the Kate Smith type, weighs some 150 lb. and, well into Act I, is the first one to get Babes In Arms off the ground when, with a pleasantly sophisticated manner, she croons of her home Way Out West On West End Avenue...
...taxes and various other charges. Last year after all charges Hearst Publications as a whole earned only $2,372,000, a slight gain over the year before but under the figure for 1934. Not the least startling item in Hearst Publications, Inc.'s accounting is the principal tangible asset-$37,000,000 due from its parent company, Hearst Consolidated Publications. A footnote explains that most of that item once represented money due from another Hearst company. When Hearst Consolidated was formed in 1930, it assumed the debt in part payment for stock in Hearst Publications. Thus, in effect...
...exclusive interview today, the very attractive wife of an undergraduate, prominent in athletics, maintained that she was a decided asset to his scholastic career. For obvious reasons, the identity of the lady must remain a secret...